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...Coloradan, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator-designate Anne Gorsuch made it a practice, as a state legislator, to oppose the EPA'S hazardous-waste and car-emission rules. Fellow Coloradan Robert Burford, chosen to head Interior's Bureau of Land Management, is a veteran of a land-hungry, anticonservationist movement collectively known as the Sagebrush Rebellion, which favors turning federally managed lands over to the states. Even John Crowell, Reagan's nominee as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in charge of the U.S. Forest Service, used to be counsel to the Louisiana-Pacific Corp., one of the largest buyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Trouble with Watt | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

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